[yocto] Why use Yocto?

[Insop Song]

Just add my few cents of using Yocto.

Since yocto is tailored towards embedded system, normally it includes
light weight (strip-down version/flavor) software and servers, such as
sysklogd instead of syslogd and busybox cron instead of crond.

Which is not a bad thing at all, as this make sure your system is less bloated.

However, just be aware that when you want to make some changes to
these server configurations, you need more debugging time since some
of this strip-down servers does not behave as other full blown
servers. Also this means that google search wont' give you good
answers either since most of the answers to the existing distribution
(ubuntu, debian,,,) targeted.

On the other hand, this mailing list is very active, and you will get
answers from other developers quickly.

ISS


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Alex J Lennon
<ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 10/06/2014 17:50, Marlon Smith wrote:
>
> Wow, thanks everyone for the excellent replies.  I am a developer and not
> much of a legal guy, so pointing out the licensing issues with Ubuntu was
> especially helpful.
>
> It sounds like we are going to choose Yocto for our product.
>
>
> Further to the excellent points made by others, presumably Freescale are
> providing commercial support on Yocto for i.MX6 now too.
>
> I know they have a developer day coming up in the UK shortly at which Yocto
> is on the agenda.
>
> I also suspect they will have some "ready to run" binaries somewhere for
> download, although I can't spot them in the walled garden.
>
> They usually do, and that might even be enough for you, depending on your
> needs, and how custom the board variant is...
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>
>
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